Censorship Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
John Stuart Mill,
Voltaire
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| Censorship offends me. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| The test of democracy is freedom of criticism. |
| - David Ben-Gurion |
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| Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government." |
| - Lenny Bruce |
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| A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. |
| - Albert Camus |
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| Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man! |
| - Thomas Carlyle |
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| I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech. |
| - Nancie J. Carmody |
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| Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. |
| - Dick Cavett |
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| The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. |
| - Henry Steele Commanger |
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| Every burned book enlightens the world. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. |
| - Sigmund Freud |
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| Books won't stay banned - Ideas won't go to jail. |
| - Alfred Whitney Griswold |
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| Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. |
| - Alfred Whitney Griswold |
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| Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. |
| - Heinrich Heine |
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| We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. |
| - John F. Kennedy |
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| To reject the word is to reject the human search. |
| - Max Lerner |
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| If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. |
| - John Stuart Mill |
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| The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. |
| - John Stuart Mill |
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| We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. |
| - John Stuart Mill |
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| Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. |
| - Voltaire |
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| Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. |
| - Voltaire |
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| We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. |
| - Voltaire |
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| I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. |
| - Mae West |
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| God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. |
| - Rebecca West |
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| The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. |
| - Walt Whitman |
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